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University donations surpass records

Ivan Imes reflects on past decade in Free Speech Plaza

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Following the sale of his engineering company nearly 10 years ago, Ivan Imes gave his remaining years to the Lord’s work — enjoying the perks of retirement from a metal foldout chair outside the LSU Student Union.

The start of the 2015-2016 school year marks Imes’ 10th year in Free Speech Plaza as the man referred to as the “Jesus Talks guy.”

Imes said he set out to make a difference and thought LSU’s 30,000-member community was a good place to start.

“When I had kids, I raised three boys without the Lord,” Imes said. “That’s why I’m here — because I saw what I didn’t do and was grieved about it.”

From a baptism behind the Chimes to a young woman’s struggle with drug addiction, Imes said he has seen it all in his decade on campus.

Toward the end of Imes’ third semester outside the Union, he agreed to be interviewed for an elementary education student’s English paper.

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Ivan Imes, ‘Jesus Talk Guy,’ sits outside the Student Union on Sept. 3, and is available to any students seeking advice on God, faith and school.

Christmas came early this year for LSU as record-breaking donations dropped into the stockings of fundraising foundations across the campus, providing renovated learning halls and top-notch software programs.

Donor support reached an alltime high of $193 million by the end of the 2014-2015 fiscal year, surpassing the previous record by almost $100 million, according to an LSU Media Relations news release.

LSU Media Relations Director Ernie Ballard said the lump sum was acquired through direct support to the university and significant gifts to its independent fundraising entities: the LSU Foundation, the Tiger Athletic Foundation and the LSU Alumni Association.

LSU President F. King Alexander said he hopes the funds received this past year will be attractive to potential students.

“We want to keep that going and make sure that our fundraising momentum is maintained,” Alexander said.

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CONSTRUCTION

Patrick F. Taylor construction remains on track despite delay

BY TIA BANERJEE @tiabanerjee_TDR As construction workers prepare to apply the pre-cast, or first molding, to Patrick F. Taylor Hall’s new addition on the building’s west side, the steel beam structure is beginning to take shape.

Despite a 60-day delay caused by complications in hiring the project’s construction manager,

Facility Services Director of Planning, Design and Construction Roger Husser said the renovation and expansion of Patrick F. Taylor Hall is moving quickly and will likely finish by the projected end date in December 2017.

“We’re completing this project quicker than we complete most projects historically that are smaller than this,” Husser said.

With a budget of $112 million, the construction project is

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the largest in LSU’s history. The building will be 462,000 square feet when completed, making it the largest building on campus.

The project’s speedy progress is partially attributed to the use of the construction manager at-risk method, as opposed to the designbid-build method traditionally used in Louisiana, Husser said.

The construction manager atrisk method allows the manager to assist in designing the project

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and permits small portions of the work to start before the design is complete. The advanced construction work is helping the project move along swiftly, Husser said.

The project began in the spring with the abatement of asbestos, Husser said.

Patrick F. Taylor is currently in phase one of construction, which will account for a majority of the work done, Husser

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said. The projected finish date for the first phase is July 2016, allowing students to use the completed facilities by fall 2016.

The new structure on the west side will house new classroom space and an auditorium.

The goal is to get all the engineering faculty into one building, Husser said. The third floor of Patrick F. Taylor will be made up

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LSU football coach Les Miles addresses the cancellation of the LSU vs. McNeese State game on Tuesday in the Athetics Administration Building conference room.

Les Miles explains players chosen at weekly lunch When the LSU football team took the field Saturday night in Tiger Stadium, senior defensive tackle Mickey Johnson, freshman offensive lineman Chidi Okeke and sophomore defensive ends Sione Teuhema and Deondre Clark were healthy scratches

from the active roster.

At his weekly Subway Fresh Take luncheon, LSU coach Les Miles said Teuhema and Clark’s exclusions were strictly performance based, hinting that the duo will have to work its way back into the coach’s favor.

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“We play the best players,” Miles said. “Certainly, if they’re the best players, they’ll step in there and go.”

Miles said he doesn’t expect either Johnson or Okeke to play this season. He didn’t cite a rea-

son for Johnson’s absence from the field but said Okeke will be redshirted for his freshman season.

“Mickey Johnson, I don’t think Mickey is going to play … this season,” Miles said. “And Chidi’s being redshirted.”

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NAACP to host Black Lives Matter rally Thursday The LSU NAACP will host a rally at 5 p.m. in Milford Wampold Memorial Park, commonly known as Stanford Park on Thursday, celebrating “black lives and why they matter,” according to an email from LSU NAACP president and philosophy senior Cimajie Best.

According to a report by The Advocate, the event coincides with an annual three-day meeting of the Baton Rouge chapter of the Louisiana Division United Daughters of the Confederacy, which will be held at The Cook Hotel and Conference Center

this week.

“To those who support Thursday’s event, the rebel flag is a symbol of hate, and to have a group on campus who not only supports the Confederacy and the things it stands for but who offer (prejudice) scholarships to Confederate decedents is not okay not one bit,” Best said in the email.

“So while the Daughters of The Confederacy are at Lod Cook celebrating their founders day, we will be across the lake having a celebration of our own.”

Harvard professor to speak at the Business Education Complex The E. J. Ourso College of Business and LSU Department of Information Systems & Decision Sciences will host a discussion by Harvard Business School Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration Lynda Applegate on Sept.

15. The event will take place at 10 a.m. in the Rotunda of the Business Education Complex, according to a College of Business news release.

“In her presentation, Applegate will discuss the opportunities and challenges of leading

entrepreneurial innovation.

She will then share her views on emerging technologies and the entrepreneurial opportunities and potential threats they create,” stated in the release.

Applegate’s research and teaching focus on challenges related to constructing new business ventures and guiding business innovation despite “significant, industry, technological, capital market and regulatory turbulence,” according to the release.

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LSU accounting sophomore Ji Han teaches weekend classes for recently adopted native Korean children to help them adjust to their new homes.

Sophomore teaches at Korean Language School

BY WILLIAM TAYLOR POTTER @wmtaylorpotter From newly adopted Korean children to American adults, accounting sophomore Ji Han helps Baton Rouge residents adjust to a new culture.

Originally from Seoul, South Korea, Han moved to New Orleans when she was 9 years old.

She spent three years as a tutor for a Korean center in New Orleans while in high school, and she currently works at the Korean Language School of Baton Rouge where she teaches both English and Korean.

The school has roughly seven to eight classes grouped by age, Han said. She typically teaches 5 to 8 year-olds who are biracial or recently adopted from Korea.

Some of the older classes taught at the school educate Americans dating Koreans or those simply interested in learning about a new culture.

“I have a strong cultural identity,” Han said. “I want to motivate them to know the importance of learning about the heritage. I really enjoy it.”

Han’s sister previously worked at the language school, which helped Han get the connection, she said.

For Han, it’s about immersion.

She attends a Korean church every Sunday where the entire service is celebrated in Korean. She also watches Korean television.

When working with the children in her class, Han looks for different methods to connect with them because some of them only speak English at home while others are native Korean speakers.

She said the language barrier makes teaching difficult, but she uses games and activities to keep students engaged.

When Han first started teaching at the Korean Language School of Baton Rouge, she was shocked by the number of adults who attended because Baton Rouge has a small Korean community. She said she didn’t expect so many people to be familiar with the culture.

“They can kind of speak

Korean, too,” Han said. “They’re really friendly about it. A lot of them watch Korean dramas.”

The Korean community in Baton Rouge is not as large as the one in New Orleans, Han said. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, the Korean community made up 0.11 percent of Baton Rouge’s population.

Koreans made up 0.1 percent of the state’s population in the same sampling.

The community in New Orleans may be larger, but it’s still small compared to the Chinese and Vietnamese communities, though each culture is supportive of the others, Han said. While participating in a fundraising competition, Han was shocked to see the Korean community out-donate the others.

“Korean people are supportive in some parts, but here, I don’t think they’re as supportive of their community,” Han said. “I’m sad about that.”

Engineers, scientists, landscape architects and LSU faculty members grabbed their pencils, calculators and fishing rods to try and revive the eroding Mississippi River Delta.

Out of 22 teams, three teams with LSU faculty members took the top spots in the international Changing Course design proposal competition in August, and now they hope to see public officials put their ideas into action.

The competition served as a platform triggering discussion about coastal erosion. It encouraged teams to create ideal solutions to rebuild the Mississippi River Delta while also preserving natural communities and the fishing and shipping industries.

Jeff Carney, CSS director and member of a winning team, said the goals of Changing Course were to challenge the status quo, raise questions and design a plausible solution.

He said since Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana is always in the spotlight as a prime example of the significant environmental alterations caused by sea level rise and the lasting effect of levees.

The Mississippi River levee system comprises 3,500 miles of levees extending about 620 miles.

These elevated natural beds can cause surface erosion, an issue that has plagued the coastal environment for centuries.

“We have created a situation where we’re increasingly at risk,” Carney said.

The teams — Baird and Associates, Studio Misi-Ziibi and

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Moffat and Nichol — agreed it is necessary to redirect the river’s course using sediment, but each group took a different approach to the problem.

Carney, a member of the Moffat and Nichol team, said the competition served as an opportunity to put political and financial constraints aside and conceive revolutionary ideas about realistic solutions to rebuild the Delta. He said his team hopes to propel the state forward by making these game-changing decisions.

“It was a fantastic opportunity for us to be at the forefront of generating what we hope will be the ideas that will, at the very least, drive the conversation,” Carney said.

LSU faculty members Irv Mendelssohn and Harry Roberts joined Baird and Associates’ team. The group planned to replenish lost land by opening new river mouths in targeted locations for certain periods of time, according to its website.

LSU geology professor Sam Bentley and Coordinator of Interdepartmental Studies in Wetland Ecology and Restoration Andrew Nyman served on the Studio Misi-Ziibi team. The group considered sustainability a multifaceted element and approached the design process by attempting to “integrate social, environmental, and economic systems to achieve

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Moffat and Nichol teamed up with West 8, an international office for urban design and landscape architecture, and the LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio, a College of Art and Design laboratory dedicated to tackling coastal issues.

Carney said the group’s proposal aimed to reconnect the Mississippi River back with its delta, a system disrupted by levees a few centuries ago.

“Because we’ve cut off the river, navigation’s doing fine, and communities are being protected, but the ecosystem is dying, which at the end of the day undermines navigation and communities,” Carney said.

Carney’s group examined fluctuations in the river’s depth, known as pulsing patterns, in flood conditions to develop a method for releasing sediment into the river, which would allow a large amount of freshwater to be pumped into a saline environment without harming fisheries.

However, he said, the fish communities would have to adapt to a more flexible system under this design.

“In the long run, the ability to adapt is much better than the whole system disappearing,” Carney said.

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CSS displays mock-up for upcoming exhibit

Local pagans seek religious rights

BY CARRIE GRACE HENDERSON @carriegraceh

A secluded retreat in the woods of Springfield, Louisiana, serves as the only known campground and outdoor recreation area for pagans in the state. While Louisiana has a long history of pagan teachings in the form of Voodoo, Santeria and Native American animism, many Louisiana residents remain perplexed by the beliefs of modern pagans.

“Okay — so we’re witches,” said Cliff Eakin, owner of Gryphon Campground and an eclectic Wiccan high priest.

“But there’s more to it than that.”

Paganism encompasses a wide spectrum of beliefs, including reverence for ancient Greek, Celtic and Norse deities, Eakin said. Wicca is one of the more prominent pagan religions.

“We believe in honoring the seasons. We believe in honoring the cycle of life,” Eakin said. “We believe that men and women were created as equals — therefore the God, the energy, is both male and female and neither and both.”

After encountering San Antonio pagans during the late ‘80s, Eakin said he was inspired to study their religious texts.

He found that the Wiccan religion resonated with him more than his former Baptist faith, and he decided to become one of the growing numbers of American pagans.

Eakin eventually settled in New Orleans, operating an occult store prior to Hurricane Katrina. After the storm destroyed the city, Eakin closed shop and said he recognized Louisiana’s need for a new space for pagans and others with alternative lifestyles.

“I wanted to have something more,” Eakin said. “That’s why I started this place. There wasn’t anything out here, no place where a pagan could feel safe to practice what they want, and this was like a calling to me.”

After acquiring property near Springfield in 2008, he established Gryphon Campground and a Wiccan church known as the Coven of the Gryphon on the site.

Locals’ immediate reaction was largely hostile, he said, and the campground still is targeted by vandals and thieves.

Attempts by local politicians and church groups to shut down the coven and campground were halted by the American Civil Liberties Union, efforts by the wider pagan community and the help of a pagan lawyer.

Local laws banning divination for pay also were challenged and overturned in 2008 as violations of religious rights.

When a child was abducted, Eakin said local Wiccans carried out a spell involving mirrors, candles and an effigy of the kidnapper to help law enforcement find the kidnapper’s location.

Eakin describes such magical spells and rituals as “symbolic prayer,” petitioning for an intervention.

Some pagans also use magic

for more trivial purposes, such as boosting their luck playing roulette, he said.

“You hope to create a ripple in space-time … but really, you’re setting yourself up for whatever you want to do,” Eakin said. “If you set yourself up for a prosperity spell, you have to pursue it.”

Eakin advises caution when using magic, due to the unintended consequences Wiccans believe its use can have.

“There’s a lot of ethical [concerns] involved when it comes to spellwork,” Eakin said. “And magic does work.”

Wiccans abide by an ethical code known as the Wiccan Rede: “Do what you will, but harm none.”

Over the years, Eakin said society has come to be more tolerant of pagans.

“People only fear what they don’t understand,” Eakin said.

“Fear fuels the fires of hatred.”

to her, was to help somebody fighting addiction.”

Before he came to LSU, Imes’ wife warned him Christian counsel might not be welcome in Free Speech Plaza. She told him the students would “eat him alive,” and offered to drive him to the hospital if he was ever injured on the job.

Imes said students have yet to harass him, but faculty members are not always receptive to his message.

“I’ve had some strange looks,” Imes said. “I’ve had two

wprofessors that essentially cursed me. You know anything that smells like God, they obviously just hate it.”

But the group Imes said he’s had the most trouble with is an organization from Mississippi called Consuming Fire.

“The little 4-year-old son of the pastor, first time he ever saw me, came up to me pointed his finger right in my face and said, ‘You’re going to hell,’” Imes said.

“And I said, ‘Well, thank you son.

I hope you don’t join me.’”

When Imes first arrived on campus, the group made trips to Free Speech Plaza three or four times a month, but now he sees them only two or three times a semester.

He said he would advise students frustrated with Consuming Fire’s preachings to “give the church a break.”

“They don’t understand love.

They don’t understand forgiveness,” Imes said. “There are a lot of things in the Bible that they don’t understand, or at least don’t live out.”

With the length of a football field of Louisiana’s Gulf Coast disappearing every hour, College of Art and Design graduate students partnered with the LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio and the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority to take a good look at the state’s future.

“Losing Ground,” the culmination of a fall 2014 graduate level architecture and landscape architecture research seminar called “Fabricating the Delta,” is now on display in the Design Building Atrium.

The temporary display will come down soon, CSS Director Jeff Carney said, but will find a new home in the Center for River Studies, which is currently under construction.

The project is a mock-up of a larger exhibit to be displayed in the Center, as part of a contract CSS has with CPRA. LSU broke ground on the Center for River Studies in February, the first of three buildings on a $45 million, 33-acre Water Campus being built along the Mississippi River.

“Part of our role is designing an exhibition, so [at] the entry when you walk into the Center for River Studies, there will be an exhibit,” Carney said. “We used the opportunity of the wall to showcase some of the work we are developing for the exhibit.”

The class of 17 graduate students focused on the area around the Wax Lake Outlet in St. Mary Parish.

The outlet was created by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in 1942 to divert water from the Atchafalaya River to the Gulf of Mexico.

The outlet, along with other flood protection and navigation landscaping, diverts sediment to the Wax Lake Delta, which keeps it from replenishing the coastline, according to the project display.

The large exhibit displays interactive models explaining the features of the Wax Lake Delta using different mediums, including video and interactive applications as well as laser cutting, 3D-printing, casting and drawing.

“The benefits to having a project like this in an academic setting is exploration of all these ways to represent the delta, which is a very dynamic, changing place,” Carney said. “So that was one of the real challenges: How do we represent what is changing so rapidly?”

Each of the class’ groups was given a budget and a question to answer about the process of building in the Wax Lake Delta.

Several of the questions and students’ answers to them are presented in the final exhibit.

The class was taught by CSS assistant visiting professor Shelby Doyle and funded by CSS.

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Losing Ground is a graduate student project exhibited in the LSU Design Building using different media to show coastal erosion in the Wax Lake Delta.

IMES, from page 1 After learning about the interviewee’s cocaine addiction and resentment toward Christianity, Imes said he left her with the religious, inspirational book “Bondage Breaker” after they parted ways following the interview.

He said the book moved the student to kick her drug habit and convert to Christianity. She even began working as a counselor at a drug rehab center in Alexandria, Louisiana.

“I won’t give away her name, but it started with a ‘K,’ and K was the happiest, bubbliest person ever,” Imes said. “Almost without exception, every time she would come by I would see the big smile.”

The majority of K’s classes were on the other side of campus, but she seemed to stop by whenever Imes was with a student who needed his counsel most, he said.

“I saw God working,” Imes said. “God would send her across campus on some unknown mission. The mission, unbeknownst

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High Priest Clifton Eakin stands under the Small Oak ritual area on Sept. 2 at Gryphon’s Nest Campground.

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Tigers prepare to play Bulldogs

Take Two

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season at LSU, and he has now extended preparation time to keep the streak alive.

Sophomore quarterback Brandon Harris is too.

“I sat in my locker for about five or 10 minutes,” Harris said about what he did during the weather delay on Saturday.

“Then, I watched the entire Southern Miss. and Mississippi State game. Once the game was over, I went to say hey to my family, then I went to watch the entire game. Again.”

After its first game against McNeese State was cancelled following a four-hour weather delay, the LSU football team shifts its focus to its official season opener, a primetime showdown on the road against Heisman candidate Dak Prescott and the Mississippi State Bulldogs.

The Tigers now head to Starkville with no live game experience this season besides a five-play series on offense and a quick three and out on defense after the season opener was called off.

Young players that figure to be key contributors on this year’s team saw little to no action against McNeese State before LSU dives into conference play. First year players like freshman cornerbacks Kevin Toliver II and Donte Jackson would have benefitted from game experience against McNeese, said junior defensive lineman Christian LaCouture.

It also would have been beneficial for sophomore quarterback Brandon Harris, whose only other official start as a Tiger was in a 41-7 road loss to Auburn last season.

“It would’ve been good for those young guys to get their reps in,” LaCouture said. “But at the same time, we just have to go on to the next week, and we couldn’t do anything about it. We really wanted to play that

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Then-freshman quarterback Brandon Harris (6) makes an offensive play during the Mississippi State game on Sept. 20, 2014 where LSU lost 34-29 at Tiger Stadium.

T LSU learns from last year’s matchup against Mississippi State

BY CHRISTIAN BOUTWELL @CBoutwell_TDR

ake two for the first game of the LSU football season — Mississippi State edition.

The No. 15 LSU football team will travel to Starkville, Mississippi, this weekend to face No. 25 Mississippi State at 8:15 p.m. on Saturday at Davis Wade Stadium.

After lightning bombarded Baton Rouge last Saturday, LSU had its first game wiped away and now has a season-opener against MSU. LSU football coach Les Miles has yet to lose the first game of the

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Tigers head into Southeastern Conference play undefeated

BY C.J. RUCKER @Ruckmatic The LSU soccer team that won one conference game last season heads into the Southeastern Conference undefeated to play Friday.

LSU (4-0-2, 0-0 SEC) started its preseason with a victory against the University of Oregon on Aug. 21, in Eugene.

Since then, the Tigers haven’t looked back, capturing three more victories all of which came at home. LSU is making

a concentrated effort to protect its home turf this year. Last year the Tigers finished 5-132 with three of their wins at home — the same amount they have won through five home games this year.

LSU didn’t have the same preseason success last year, as they finished the preseason 4-31. The Tigers’ performance in last year’s preseason carried over to SEC play as they finished at the bottom of the SEC with a 1-9-1 record.

LSU is relying on the its

forwards’ improved play with sophomore Jorian Baucom and junior Summer Clarke. The two didn’t have much time to create on-field chemistry last year because Baucom was a freshman, arriving on campus a few days before the Tigers kicked off their preseason.

The dynamic duo had an entire offseason to work on their rapport on the pitch. Baucom said her play alongside Clarke will be important heading into

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LSU senior midfielder Alex Arlitt (14) dribbles during the Tigers’ 4-0 victory over Indiana on Sunday at the LSU Soccer Stadium.

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Freshman Teuhema brings athletic ability to offensive line

BY JAMES BEWERS @JamesBewersTDR At 6-foot-5, 327 pounds, LSU freshman offensive guard Maea Teuhema may appear to be just another bruising space clearer, suited best for driving defensive linemen through an area the size of a phone booth.

But that would be selling his athletic ability short. Once upon a time, Teuhema traded his shoulder pads and helmet for a bat and a glove. Until he literally grew out of the sport, the Texan was manning important spots on the baseball diamond, standing out as the largest kid on the field.

“Catcher, center field, first base,” Teuhema said, rattling off the positions he played.

The footwork he may have learned from his times behind the plate or in the outfield is now displaying itself as a rookie on the LSU offensive line. The former four-star prospect established himself as one of LSU coach Les Miles’ first men off the bench, slated to substitute with at least one of the two guard starters.

Although Miles revealed Monday he expects as many as 15

freshman to play this season — something the 11th-year coach has been consistent with in his time at LSU — Teuhema stood out enough to be integrally involved in a talented position group, taking reps with the first-team line leading up to the canceled opener against McNeese State.

While starting sophomore defensive tackle Davon Godchaux sees Teuhema’s athletic ability as his best weapon, fifth-year senior defensive tackle Quentin Thomas is impressed by the muscle Teuhema and the other young offensive linemen bring, especially since Thomas has been in Baton Rouge longer than any other Tiger.

“I’m going to tell you one thing: Strength wise, them dudes don’t lack in that area at all,” Thomas said. “That’s some of the strongest freshman I have seen come in, besides myself, obviously.”

As Thomas points out, LSU returned three starters on the line, so the incoming freshmen felt the need to prove themselves as soon as camp began. But Teuhema has risen near the top, supplanting players who have been with the team for a year.

But Teuhema was almost a

Longhorn, initially making his verbal commitment to former Texas coach Mack Brown in summer 2013. Teuhema was doing as his brother, sophomore defensive end Sione Teuhema, planned to do, but circumstances in Austin changed when Brown left the program.

The next option became LSU, and it was clear the brothers would be heading to the same place. Not only have the brothers formed a bond that wouldn’t be broken by college choices, the decision to head to Baton Rouge pleased the matriarch of the family.

“My mom wanted it, and I like making my mom happy,” Maea said. “I’m glad we’re both here.”

Maea and Sione, though, developed into highly regarded football players away from their parents as both moved into the house of the duo’s little league coach in Keller, Texas, to attend Keller High School. Sione and Maea’s parents were close with the coach’s family and realized it would be best if they went to school away from where they were living.

Sione said he became closer with his brother starting in middle school, and each pushed each other in practice on opposite sides of the

line once they got to prep football.

“In high school, once we lined up together, I always made sure I went hard for him to get better, and he always made sure he went hard for me to get better,” Sione said. “We just worked off each other.”

While Maea and Sione may eventually be separated if both reach the next level, the eldest is enjoying being the teammate of the youngest at the collegiate level, but he isn’t going to tell him how

well he’s doing.

“If you see him out there right now, he’s going to be a great player,” Sione said. “Growing up, he has three more years [at LSU], and I’m just proud to be his brother right now. Just watching him grow and be a great player out there.

“People tell me that he’s strong and he’s going to be great. But to be honest, I don’t tell him that he’s good or anything. I don’t want him to have a high head or anything.”

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LSU freshman Maea Teuhema (75) signs autographs during fan day Aug. 16 in the Carl Maddox Field House.

Ohio St. should schedule tougher nonconference opponents INTO THE WOODS JACK WOODS Sports Columnist Ohio State’s remaining schedule is paper thin.

Actually, what’s thinner than paper thin? Whatever that is, that’s what the rest of the Buckeyes’ schedule is.

Seriously, look at it and confidently name one team outside of No. 5 Michigan State you feel can challenge the Buckeyes for four quarters. I’ll wait … and I’ll be waiting until my hair is completely gray.

The Buckeyes’ first game wasn’t a breeze, I’ll give them that. Virginia Tech had Ohio State in the first half but couldn’t hang on in the second.

Hokies quarterback Michael Brewer was driven into the ground in the third quarter, shoulder first. Brewer’s collarbone was fractured, and the Hokies chances began to crumble.

Basically, Ohio State couldn’t pull away until Virginia Tech was forced to use its backup quarterback.

Now we get to watch the Buckeyes throttle the teams remaining on their nonconference schedule before outclassing the rest of the Big 10.

The Buckeyes have nine more games until they face a ranked team.

Following the opener at Lane Stadium, Ohio State has three consecutive home games against Hawaii, Northern Illinois and Western Michigan.

After that, the Buckeyes have Indiana, Maryland, Penn State, Rutgers, Minnesota and Illinois before they finally meet a ranked team in the Spartans.

After its one ranked matchup, Ohio State plays Michigan, and although anything can happen in a rivalry game, it’s hard to see the Wolverines posing a challenge this season.

Ohio State has one serious test during the remainder of the regular season, and it comes at home against the Spartans.

The Buckeyes are talented (what other team has a guy who used to play quarterback making diving catches and hitting spin moves out of NCAA Football 2003?), and they are capable of beating any school in the country.

But it’s a shame they’re going to be a double digit favorite in just about every game this season when all the other elite programs have at least a few games where they will really be put to the test.

I know it’s not the Buckeyes’ fault the Big 10 may be down again this year, but it’d be nice if they at least had a tougher nonconference slate.

Virginia Tech was a decent test, but a nonconference matchup against a ranked team would’ve been welcomed by college football fans.

The Buckeyes’ main threat in the Big 10, Michigan State, is preparing to handle No. 7 Oregon’s high-octane offense this weekend. Meanwhile, Ohio State is getting ready to square off against the Rainbow Warriors. That says it all, really.

Ohio State, you’re good at football. In fact, you’re great at football.

But your schedule is abysmal. We aren’t impressed when

you beat a vastly overmatched team by seven touchdowns. We know you’re talented, but we just want to see you put that talent to the test.

Jack Woods is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from Ruston, Louisiana. You can reach him on Twitter @Jack_TDR.

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UNDEFEATED, from page 5

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LSU freshman defensive back Donte Jackson (1) returns the ball during kickoff on Saturday when the Tigers played against the McNeese State Cowboys prior to the rain cancellation at Tiger Stadium.

MISSISSIPPI STATE, from page 5 game. It was our home opener.

The crowd was amazing, and our team was ready to go. We just have to move on and play the next game.”

The Mississippi State game will also mark the Tigers’ fourth straight contest away from Tiger Stadium. With Auburn looming the following week, LSU will open its season against two Southeastern Conference schools for the first time in school history.

STOPPING DAK AND THE BULLDOGS LSU will look to avenge last year’s 34-29 loss to the Bulldogs, Mississippi State’s first win against LSU in the 21st century and its first in Tiger Stadium since 1991.

Prescott led his team to 570 total yards on offense, the most yards ever given up by LSU since Les Miles took over as head coach in 2005.

Prescott had his way with a young LSU defense for the majority of the game with 268 yards passing and two touchdowns. He added 105 yards on the ground, including a 56-yard touchdown run to add to his Heisman hype tape.

LSU returns six starters on

OPENER, from page 5 On a night Harris was supposed to be on the field competing in his first game of the season, he already watched his next opponent play a complete game.

Twice.

Mental preparation is what LSU will need to be ready for Mississippi State, mainly because the Tigers now know what the Bulldog offense is capable of on the field.

Last year, Mississippi State defeated LSU, 34-29, ending a 14-game winning streak for the No. 8 LSU Tigers against the Bulldogs.

LSU allowed a season-high

defense this season while Mississippi State only returns four offensive starters from 2014.

LaCouture said that containing Prescott will be the defense’s main emphasis this week in practice.

“We have to collapse the pocket and make him feel uncomfortable back there, and if we do that, we should have a great game plan this week,” LaCouture said. “We have to contain him. That’s one of the biggest things. Me and [Davon] Godchaux have to push up the middle and get off the blocks.

Dak [has the ability] to run and throw, and we just have to make sure we can prevent those big plays.”

LaCouture said tackling Prescott one-on-one is a challenge. Another big emphasis for the Tigers this week will be swarming to the ball on defense and getting as many helmets on him as possible.

“He’s a bigger guy,” LaCouture said. “He’s not one of those guys that you can hit and he just goes down. We’re gonna have to wrap up. We have to make sure we’re flying to the ball and always have two or three guys bringing him down. If we do that and just play our game, I think we’ll be OK.” 570 yards against the Bulldogs. Senior quarterback Dak Prescott alone ripped off 105 rushing yards and 268 passing yards. Prescott, a relentless runner, made life difficult for members of the LSU defense during the game, said LSU junior defensive lineman Tashawn Bower.

“Dak is a tough runner,” Bower said. “He can hurt you with his feet and with the ball in his hands. You really have to respect that, but if every man does their job, I think we will be alright.”

Bower vividly remembers tackling Prescott because of his unnatural, athletic stature, which is normally a trademark

conference play.

“Me and her have to be very compatible up top and play off of each other,” Baucom said.

“Our chemistry needs to stay at peak level.”

Their work in the offseason has started to pay dividends.

Baucom and Clarke boast a combined nine of the team’s 13 preseason goals. Their best game came in the last game of the preseason against Indiana University. They combined for two goals each in the Tigers’ 4-0 win over the Hoosiers.

LSU’s defense also has shown great strides in preseason, senior defender Alex Arlitt said. The Tigers conceded four goals in their six games this preseason. Last year LSU gave up nine goals before starting SEC play. The rejuvenated LSU defense’s success is the result of the improved play of its backline led by Arlitt, LSU coach Brian Lee said.

“I think our back four has grown a lot with our chemistry this season,” Arlitt said.

“I definitely had to step up. I didn’t used to be a very vocal player. I think that another big reason why we’ve had success so early in the season is because other people on the team are being encouraged to step up and have that same level of communication.”

page 7 Three of LSU’s wins this preseason came against a Pac 12 school and Big 10 schools, tests Lee said will help the team in the long run. LSU defeated the Indiana Hoosiers, who took down the University of Missouri, one of LSU’s scheduled SEC opponents. Lee said the team’s rigorous schedule this

preseason prepared them for the physical style of play in the SEC. “That’s why you play Oregon, Indiana and Minnesota,” Lee said. “We want to see big conference teams that are athletic and train year-round. We feel like we’re prepped and ready for SEC games.”

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(Top) LSU junior forward Summer Clarke (4) dribbles past an opponent. (Bottom) Senior midfielder Natalia Gomez-Junco celebrates with her teammates Sunday during the Tigers’ 4-0 victory over Indiana. of fullbacks or tight ends — not quarterbacks.

“I tackled him in the middle of the field,” Bower said. “I remember bringing him down, and he’s a heavy guy. I remember asking myself, ‘Jeez, he’s a quarterback? Really?’”

Prescott led the Bulldogs to a quick 34-10 lead last season against the Tigers. LSU pressured Mississippi State with a late offensive surge, closing the lead to 34-29 in the fourth quarter with three touchdowns in the final twelve minutes.

Harris, who emerged as a substitute for junior quarterback Anthony Jennings, led the belated siege. After two

touchdowns during the same minute to sophomore wide receiver Malachi Dupre, Harris threw a goal-line interception, giving LSU its first blemish of the 2014 season.

Although the interception smothered the Tigers in the loss, LSU junior defensive lineman Christian LaCouture said lapses in effective defensive communication initiated the demise against the Bulldogs.

Bower, who plays beside LaCouture, agreed.

“We had some issues with communication last year,” Bower said. “It can cause us giving up a huge run or a huge pass. It can really change the

momentum of a game.”

Bower, LaCouture and the rest of the LSU defense said they believe they will be ready for Prescott and the rest of Mississippi State’s high-powered offense on Saturday.

“We have already started watching film from Southern Miss.,” LaCouture said. “We have to make sure we can prevent those big-time plays. We have to collapse the pocket and get back there. If we do that, then we are going to have a great game plan this week.”

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Planned Parenthood provides several beneficial services, deserves its funding NOT MARIAH CAREY MARIAH MANUEL Columnist The name Planned Parenthood brings a negative connotation that sparks contentious national debate, leaving a nation divided over two distinctly different ideals: choice or life.

Today, Planned Parenthood will stand before the House Judiciary Committee to make its case before Congress as to whether the organization should be allowed to maintain its federal funding.

Despite local and national unrest over the release of the ninth sting video by an antiabortion group, forensic experts found the footage was heavily edited and missing minutes of recordings, according to Politico. These videos are nothing more than an effort to further a conservative agenda that promotes governmental control over women’s bodies.

In a court filing, the Department of Justice said

Gov. Bobby Jindal’s plan to cut funding for Planned Parenthood violates federal law, as it prevents Medicaid patients from choosing their health care provider.

This proves Jindal’s statements and actions are nothing more than political grandstanding. His attempts to defund the organization do nothing to prevent abortion, but they do violate women’s rights and limit health care for those who need it most — Medicaid patients.

Planned Parenthood has been in Louisiana for more than 30 years and has never performed a single abortion, according to Jewel Bush, the communications manager for Planned Parenthood. The majority of the services provided include wellness visits, cancer and STD screenings and family planning.

Louisiana has the highest rates of gonorrhea and chlamydia, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and ranks third in syphilis and HIV ratings.

Baton Rouge and New Orleans top the list with the highest

HIV infection rates in the country.

Since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, New Orleans continues to lack health care options.

A recent survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found 64 percent of residents say there are not enough health care services available for uninsured and low-income residents.

“Planned Parenthood saves lives,” said Planned Parenthood State Director Melissa Flournoy in a statement. “We are fighting this case because we fear some women’s cancers will get worse before being diagnosed and that HIV and sexually transmitted infections will continue to spread without the medical care Planned Parenthood provides.”

Federal funds are not permitted to be used to pay for abortions. The funding is allocated between STD screenings, gynecological exams, contraception and other wellness services for low-income patients.

Flournoy said in the statement that patients may have to

wait weeks or even months for screenings for potentially lifethreatening diseases, if they can be seen at all because of the lack of Medicaid providers in Louisiana.

“If the court does not step in, more than 5,200 Planned Parenthood patients who access health care through Louisiana’s Medicaid programs could lose access to their trusted health care provider,” Flournoy said in the statement.

It is not the business of the government to tell women where they can get their Pap tests done. Jindal is taking every opportunity to speak out against an organization that helps thousands of women across the state access health care they would not otherwise be able to. Not only is it irresponsible, it is against federal law — something our governor would know if he wasn’t so busy making a haphazard attempt at running the country.

Planned Parenthood may perform procedures some consider controversial, but the organization does a great

deal to keep women, men and children healthy and happy.

The organization’s promotion of wellness and safety also extends to Planned Parenthood’s student organization here on campus, Planned Parenthood Generation Action.

The group regularly distributes condoms every Friday. On Sept. 4, they distributed 650 within 45 minutes in Tigerland for “Free Condom Friday,” according to the group’s past president adviser Noah Bryant Ballard.

Whether you agree with the group’s practices, the organization provides high-quality, affordable health care services to Louisiana citizens, as it has done for more than 30 years. It will continue to do as long as the government steers clear of a woman’s right to choose — not only her health care provider, but what happens to her body.

Mariah Manuel is a 22-yearold mass communication senior from Lake Charles, Louisiana. You can reach her on Twitter @mariah_manuel.

Protesters hold signs outside the Planned Parenthood Health Center on Government Street on Aug. 22. Today, Planned Parenthood will make a case before Congress as to whether the organization should be allowed to maintain its federal funding.

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Yahoo CEO’s decision to parent at work is empowering to women CONSERVATIVE CAIT CAITLYN ATKINSON Columnist Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer faced strong criticism after announcing she was pregnant with identical twin girls. In her Sept. 1 statement on Yahoo’s Tumblr, she stated she would be “taking limited time away and working throughout,” as she did with her son three years ago.

Mayer faced similar criticism when she took over Yahoo.

She was five months pregnant and built a nursery next to her office, according to Huffington Post. Mayer understood then, as she does now, that only 5 percent of CEOs are female, largely because a career disruption like pregnancy can cause them to make up to 30 percent less than their male counterparts, according to Fortune.

So why are we not praising her for being a model for

women who want to make it to the top of the business world and have families?

Feminism has made marriage and family the enemy of success for women. Motherhood is a gift only women can receive, and it is their natural role.

Women are told after an unplanned pregnancy that their lives, or at least their careers, are over. If they decide to get an abortion, it is supposed to be empowering to women.

Young women are told that starting a serious relationship in college will distract them from school. If they decide to have multiple sex partners and “just have fun,” it is supposed to empower them.

Why is being a woman, supporting a good man and raising good children not empowering? Why is doing the first jobs we were created to do not empowering?

A married woman’s top priority should be her marriage. A study by Stanford

University in 2014 showed divorce can have a “detrimental effect” on a CEO’s work, affecting their energy, concentration, productivity and their approach to risk.

Putting a marriage on the backburner for the sake of getting ahead at work reminds me of the opening scene of Disney and Pixar’s “Cars.” Lightning McQueen refuses to take help from his pit crew because passing on tires saved time short term. Eventually, neglected tires blow, and eventually, a neglected marriage will blow and hurt the career you’ve worked so hard for.

Spouses need to be partners tackling the challenges of work and parenthood together and enjoying every aspect of their lives together, including raising children.

While a man is completely capable of taking care of a baby, and no doubt adores his children, women have a way of nurturing that is individual to them. Physically, a woman’s

body was designed for having children and providing for them in their first few years of life, which builds a special bond from the beginning. Research supports that when women interact with their children, like feeding and holding them, oxytocin is released and strengthens their bond, according to Parenting.com.

This maternal bond boosts immunity, prevents diseases and improves IQ in children.

There is evidence a woman and her baby can identify each other simply by smell. When MRIs were taken of women while they watched their baby make faces, the parts of her brain associated with rewards was activated. Women naturally want to take care of their babies. They are physically and emotionally created to do it well and feel good about it.

There is nothing better for a woman to do than raise children well. I am surrounded by women who decided at some point their job, as mom was

infinitely more important than being nurses, lawyers and businesswomen.

For Mayer, a woman who wants to remain in charge of overhauling Yahoo, building a nursery next to her office means she can be mom and CEO. She’s still with her baby, and she’s not losing momentum in her career. She’s doing it all.

I understand not all women want to be wives and mothers, and that’s OK. It’s up to women who want success in both to find ways in their career fields to be a hands-on wife and mother and still make it to the top. It’s time women start paving their own way as manager and mom, whether that’s through quitting work, building an office nursery, working from home or something else.

Caitlyn Atkinson is an 18-yearold mass communication sophomore from Pride, Louisiana. You can reach her on Twitter @catkin105.

Judge shouldn’t have reversed decision on Kim Davis ENTITLED MILLENNIAL CODY SIBLEY Columnist Let’s stop masking bigotry as “sincerely-held religious beliefs.”

U.S. District Judge David Bunning freed Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis from jail Tuesday afternoon, five days after he sent her there for failing to issue marriage licenses.

Her deputies issued marriage licenses while she was in jail. The district judge said he was satisfied with that arrangement, so he released her.

Davis refused to issue marriage licenses because she claimed religious objections to same-sex marriage. Because she wasn’t following the law, Bunning sent her to jail, holding her in contempt of court.

The special treatment we give religious groups, Christians in particular, is appalling. Do you think the public would support Davis if she was a muslim woman? Exactly.

Davis didn’t learn anything from her punishment. She never issued marriage licenses to a same-sex couple. Her deputies did. She doesn’t need

to be rewarded for something she didn’t do.

If the judge wanted the deputies to issue marriage licenses on her behalf, he should have ordered them to do so instead of jailing her. She’s not going to suddenly change her mind and support equality.

Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear won’t intervene either.

Davis asked his office to release her from jail and to accommodate her sincerely-held religious beliefs.

He didn’t endorse her, but he didn’t condemn her either. Beshear said this was “a matter between her and the courts.”

Well, the courts spoke, and they decided a woman who broke the law can go free because someone else did her job for her.

And he still won’t intervene.

He’s doing what every Democrat does in a red state. He’s uncomfortable, and obviously not taking a stance.

Kentucky is effectively allowing religious beliefs to trump human rights.

I’m tired of people’s religious rights taking precedent over human or civil rights.

Where’s my right to live free of persecution? Gay people can still be fired based on who they love in 27 states,

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including Louisiana and Kentucky. Someone’s religion or sexual insecurities shouldn’t dictate where I work.

We live in a secular country.

Our First Amendment guarantees Congress won’t pass any laws prohibiting or enforcing a religion. The government isn’t prohibiting Davis from practicing her religion.

She can discriminate against the LGBT community at any point she likes during her private time.

When she steps into her office, however, she becomes a public figure. She’s issuing marriage licenses on behalf of Kentucky, and therefore cannot impose her beliefs onto others. The Supreme Court settled this issue in June.

Everyone needs to comply with the law if we’re ever going to move forward with addressing other LGBT issues in America.

It’s time for Davis to stop acting like a child. She can either do the job for which the people elected her, or she should resign.

Cody Sibley is a 19-yearold mass communication sophomore from Opelousas, Louisiana. You can reach him on Twitter @CodySibley.

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Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis pauses as she speaks after being released from the Carter County Detention Center on Tuesday in Grayson, Kentucky.

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DONATIONS, from page 1 The LSU Foundation alone experienced its most successful fundraising year, hitting the $74 million mark. It received half of a $40 million estate gift split with TAF, which was one of its largest donations ever and will benefit the College of Engineering.

The LSU Foundation’s results from this fiscal year are nearly triple its 2012 total, which was $25,457,008. By 2013, the foundation raised $68,659,121.

Sara Crow, senior director of Communications and Donor Relations for the LSU Foundation, said in addition to the planned gift from an anonymous donor, the LSU Foundation received generous support for other projects.

She said $55 million in donations were raised for the College of Engineering’s Patrick F. Taylor Hall renovation, and the sum will be matched by the state of Louisiana.

“They’re going to add a chemical engineering annex,” Crow said.

“That certainly has been a pretty significant fundraising project and very successful.”

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The third major gift given to the LSU Foundation was the $12 million commitment Roger Ogden made to the recently renamed Roger Hadfield Ogden Honors College.

The donation was made in honor of Ogden’s son and late father who share the same name.

Crow said most students are unaware how much their daily lives are impacted by donors’ generosity. Donors support scholarships, study abroad programs, LSU faculty recruitment and retainment and innovative programs and initiatives, among other projects.

“Quietly, every single day, donors are reaching into their own pockets and making gifts to support students they’ve never met,” Crow said.

Donors also gave a total of $83.8 million directly to LSU, which purchased “premier geoscience and engineering software gifted to various locations across campus,” according to the release.

The LSU Alumni Association obtained $3 million in funds.

Its membership consequently increased to 15,000 alumni — a 7 percent higher membership.

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Donations to the Association support scholarships, stipends to retain professors, faculty awards to incentivize achievement and an independent operations at no cost to the institution, according to its website.

TAF exceeded its previous fundraising efforts with the approximately $32.3 million it raised over the past year.

Aside from the planned gift divided with the LSU Foundation, TAF’s philanthropic programs provide for the TAF Capital Programs Fund, the LSU Football Building Fund, the LSU Gymnastics Practice Facility and the Tiger Athletic Nutrition Center, among many others, according to the organization’s website.

Crow said the enthusiasm for philanthropic support, as evidenced by the record breaker, reflects LSU’s strong culture of Tiger spirit prevalent in both current students and alumni.

“A lot of the unique parts of [students’] LSU experience are made possible, in whole or in part, because an alum or friend of LSU felt passionate enough about the University to give,” Crow said.

RENOVATION, from page 1 of faculty and graduate student offices, while the first and second floors will house classrooms and laboratories.

Following the abatement was the demolition of the northern half of the building in May. The third floor of the northern half of the building was gutted in the spring, and workers are currently building new walls and installing utilities on the third floor while gutting of the first and second floors takes place.

The second and final phase of construction is set to begin in fall 2016 and is projected to reach completion by the end of fall 2017 semester, allowing use of the entire facility to begin in spring 2018. Renovations to the southern half of the building will take place during this second phase.

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LSU undergoes expansion on Aug. 31 to allow space for a 3D metal printing consortium at Patrick F. Taylor Hall.

DONATIONS MADE TO LSU LSU A&M 2013 2014 2015 $18,339,053.42

$4,925,444.61

$83,831,325.02

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 2014

2015

$2,244,095.00

$3,267,067.59

$3,051,371.64

2012

LSU FOUNDATION 2013

$25,457,008

$28,686,269

2013

2014

$68,659,121

TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION 2013 2014 2015 $18,377,433.57

$13,697,784.18

$32,346,258.77

Note: Numbers provided by TAF do not include money for ticketing and parking.

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Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Don’t call it a comeback

Mike VI makes home game reappearance Saturday despite rain

BY KACI CAZENAVE @kacicaz Threats of rain may have discouraged some Tiger fans from attending Saturday’s game, but it wasn’t enough to keep the tiger himself away.

For the first time in over a year, Mike VI attended an LSU football game at Tiger Stadium.

According to an LSU Media Relations news release, representatives from the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine will attempt to load Mike into his trailer for the season’s first three home games against McNeese State, Auburn and Eastern Michigan.

With the first game of the season under their belt, Mike VI and his caretakers will spend the next two weeks preparing for his appearance during the Tigers’ next home game against Auburn.

Public relations director for the SVM Ginger Guttner said the tiger — not SVM personnel — decides whether he will ride through Tiger Stadium for home games.

“We take Mike’s trailer and back it up to the night house on the PMAC side and attach it to his night house via a chain link fence,” Guttner said. “Then we open the door to the trailer, followed by the night house, and then we wait.”

If Mike loads, he is normally on the field two hours prior to kickoff, Guttner said. Mike VI’s veterinarian Dr. David Baker and two veterinary student caretakers accompany Mike while on the field and escort him, alongside a crowd marshal between his habitat and Tiger Stadium.

Guttner said current SVM students are eligible to serve as Mike VI’s caretakers. No specialty in large or exotic animal handling is required — just a commitment to taking care of Mike seven days a week for two years.

Mike has attended 32 of the 57 home games since his 2007 debut at Tiger Stadium for the Florida vs. LSU game, according to the release.

That season, he attended all but the first home game, and in 2014, he did not attend any home games, according to the release.

LSU President F. King Alexander said in the release that Mike’s behavior was reluctant in 2014. If that behavior continues into the 2015 season, Alexander said the alternative option is to leave Mike in his habitat during games.

“It’s fun for us when he decides to go to the game, though,” Guttner said. “The cheerleaders get on top of the trailer, the opposing team must pass him to get into the stadium — it’s a good time.”

photos by HASKELL WHITTINGTON AND THE DAILY REVEILLE ARCHIVES

[Left] Mike the VI makes his rounds on the field before LSU took on McNeese State on Saturday at Tiger Stadium. [Right] Mike VI sits in the snow on Jan. 28, 2014, in his habitat.

Business senior Zach Dubiel said he has attended LSU games since he was 12 years old, sometimes just to see Mike there.

“I love having Mike at the home

games because it adds to the intimidation that is already Tiger Stadium,” Dubiel said. “It’s a very cool tradition, and I couldn’t imagine LSU gameday without [Mike].”